File:Louis Gargano (1919-1944) obituary.jpg

DescriptionLouis Gargano (1919-1944) obituary.jpg	English: Louis Gargano (1919-1944) obituary
Date	1944
Source	Jersey Journal 1944
Author	Unknown authorUnknown author
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Celebrate Mass for Marine Killed in Action. Platoon Sergt. Louis Gargano, of the U. S. Marines, 24-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Spiro Gargano, 136 Avenue B,. Bayonne, was killed in action in the South Pacific four weeks ago, according to a telegram received by his parents Friday. He joined the marines in June, 1939, and he saw service in Hawaii, Guam, Cuba, and practically every other area over which floated the Stars and Stripes, He was in the same outfit as Lt. Thomas O'Neill, son of Chief of Police C. J. O'Neill of Bayonne, and the latter was near him when he fell. At St. Vincent de Paul's Roman Catholic Church, practically a stone's throw from Sergt. Gargano's home, and where he was a communicant, a solemn high memorial mass was said for him at 9 this morning. The young marine was born in Phillipsburg and was brought to Bayonne when he was a year old. He attended School 8, Junior High School and graduated from Technical High, qualifying as a tool land dye maker. He was thus employed by the Conmar Co., when he prior to participation in the inva-[decided to join the marines at the invasion of Guadalcanal. While in ;age of 19. He received his boot North Carolina he met and married !training at Parris Island and Neuve the former Miriam Hewitt. of !River, N. C., and, after making a Elizabeth City, N. C., who survives. tour of the world, returned to She received word of the death last Camp LeJeune, where he was Thursday night, she stated. in a trained with the Fifth Marines, telegram to her husband's family. which embarked for New Zealand . There survive beside his wife and parents, a brother, Dominick, and two sisters, Mrs. Barney di Pieirn and Mrs. Marie Basile, all of Bayonne.

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